Singhal said: “Sudarshan ji, a great visionary, once told me that the entire country will be Hindu by 2020 and the entire world will be Hindu by 2030.”

“Sudarshan ji was not only a saint but a visionary, who had predicted that a revolutionary change in the country will begin in 2012 and ultimately that happened in 2014,” he said in an oblique reference to the BJP-led alliance’s victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Sushma Swaraj said: “Sudarshan ji was like my mother. As girls used to share everything with their mother, I used to share with him everything.”